Ed Miliband looks on as Ed Balls delivers his speech at the conferenceJack Hill for The Times

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The annual Labour Party Conference todayJack Hill for The Times

Roland WatsonPolitical Editor

Last updated at 5:30PM, September 27 2011

Ed Miliband broke with 30 years of political and economic orthodoxy yesterday
as he vowed to rewrite the rules for doing business in Britain and create a
more equal society.

The Labour leader said that he would “chart a new course” away from the
Thatcherite legacy endorsed by Tony Blair and bring the values of the
hard-working majority into company boardrooms.

Portraying himself as “the guy who is determined to break the closed circles
of Britain”, he said that Britain had become too unequal. He stood ready to
take risks in the face of vested interests and write a new